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Amy-Jill Levine
University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies
Professor of Jewish Studies
Divinity School and College of Arts and Science
Vanderbilt University
411 21st Ave. S.
Nashville, TN 37240
615-343-3967 (office)
615-343-9957 (fax)
[email protected]
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Affiliated Professor
Woolf Institute: Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations
12-14 Grange Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DU
[email protected]

Education:
Smith College, Northampton, MA, B.A. (Magna cum Laude; High Honors in English and
Religion), 1978.
Duke University, Durham, NC, M.A. (Religion), 1981.
Master's Thesis: "Universalism and Exclusivity: The Matthean Program of Salvation."
Director: D. Moody Smith.
Duke University, Durham, NC, Ph.D. (Religion), 1984.
Dissertation: "The Matthean Program of Salvation History: A Contextual Analysis of the
Exclusivity Logia." Director: D. Moody Smith.
NEH Summer Institute, participant. Judaism and the Liberal Arts. Brown University, 1988;
review conference, 1989.

Honors, Fellowships, Grants:
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, Doctor of Divinity (hon.), 2003.
Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, TX, Doctor of Humane Letters
(hon.), 2008.
University of South Carolina-Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, Doctor of Religious Education
(hon.), 2009.
Drury University, Springfield, MO, Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.), 2010.
Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN, Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.), 2011.
Franklin College, Franklin, IN, Doctor of Divinity (hon.), 2015.
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Association for Jewish Studies, Distinguished Lectureship Faculty (2015-17).
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Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (2015): Panel discussion, sponsored by the
Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts: Short Stories by Jesus (Nov. 2015).
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Associated Church Press, Best of Christian Press Awards, 2012: Award of Excellence (first
place), “A Jewish Take on Jesus” by Amy-Jill Levine and U.S. Catholic Editors, 2012.
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American Jewish Committee and St. Leo University Center for Catholic Jewish Studies,
Tampa, FL, Eternal Light Award (March, 2009)
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Smith College, Medalist (Feb. 2007)
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Short Stories By Jesus – Catholic Book Club February Selection, “America, the National
Catholic Review” (Feb. 2015).
The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
(HarperSanFrancisco, 2006) – “Publisher’s Weekly” Best Books of 2007
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Mentoring Award, Society of Biblical Literature, Committee on the Status of Women in the
Profession (2001)
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"Jesus Who?” Moment (Aug. 2002) selected for Best Jewish Writing 2003 (Jossey-Bass)
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Birmingham University, 2014 Cadbury Lectures, Birmingham UK, Nov./Dec. 2014.
Murdoch University, International Theologian 2013, Perth, WA, Australia (July/August,
2013)
Woolf Institute, Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Wesley College,
Cambridge University, UK, Sabbatical (spring, 2011).
Catholic Biblical Association, Visiting Scholar to the Philippines (Summer, 2004)
University of Glasgow, Alexander Robertson Fellow (Dec. 2001)
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National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for College Teachers (1992-93).
American Council of Learned Societies Grant (1992-93).
Swarthmore: Faculty Summer Research Grant (87, 91); Brand Blanchard Faculty Fellowship
(88-89); Faculty Advisor, Junior NEH Summer Research Grant Advisor (1990, 1992 [2
students]); Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Research Chair (1993-95).
Duke: G. H. Kearns Fellowship (78-81); Tuition Scholarship (82); W. D. Davies
Instructorship in Biblical Studies (82-83); Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (83-84).
Smith: Phi Beta Kappa; Foote Prize, Biblical Studies, First Group Scholar (75-78).
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ACLS Prescreener, 1994-95, 1995-96, 96-97.
NEH Younger Scholars Program grant evaluations panel, 1994.
NEH Summer Institute Faculty: "The Image and Reality of Women in Ancient Near Eastern
Societies." Brown University, July 1995.

Books:
The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Matthean Salvation History: "Go Nowhere Among the
Gentiles" (Matt 10:5b). Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity 14.
Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
James H. Charlesworth, with James Mueller, assisted by Amy-Jill Levine, Randall Chesnutt,
and M. J. H. Charlesworth. The New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: A
Guide to Publications, with Excursuses on Apocalypses. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press,
1987.
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Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, and A.-J. Levine (eds.). Religious Writings and Religious
Systems. Systemic Analysis of Holy Books in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Greco-
Roman Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism. Vol. I: Islam, Buddhism, Greco-Roman
Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism. Atlanta: Scholars Press for Brown Studies in
Religion, BSR 1, 1989.
Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, and A.-J. Levine (eds.). Religious Writings and Religious
Systems. Systemic Analysis of Holy Books in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Greco-
Roman Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism. Vol. II: Christianity. Atlanta: Scholars
Press for Brown Studies in Religion, BSR 2, 1989.
Editor: "Women Like This." New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World.
Early Judaism and its Literature 1. Atlanta: GA: Scholars Press/Society of Biblical
Literature, 1991 [American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS History E-Book Project,
2006].
Editor: Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature series.
Sheffield, UK: Sheffield University Press; New York/London: Continuum; Cleveland,
OH: Pilgrim Press.
Matthew (2001) [ed. with Marianne Blickenstaff]
Una Compañera para Mateo [Bilbao: Desclée De Brouwer, 2004])
Mark (2001) [ed. with Marianne Blickenstaff]
Una Compañera para Marcos [Bilbao: Desclé De Brouwer, 2005])
Luke (2002) [ed. With Marianne Blickenstaff]
John I (2003) [ed. With Marianne Blickenstaff]
John II (2003) [ed. With Marianne Blickenstaff]
Paul (2004) [ed. With Marianne Blickenstaff]
Deutero-Paul (2003) [ed. With Marianne Blickenstaff]
Catholic Epistles (2004) [ed. With Maria Mayo Robbins]
Acts of the Apostles (2004) [ed. With Maria Mayo Robbins]
Mariology (2005) [ed. With Maria Mayo Robbins]
New Testament Apocrypha (2006) [ed. With Maria Mayo Robbins]
Early Christian Writings (2008) [ed. With Maria Mayo Robbins]
The Book of Revelation (2009) [ed. With Maria Mayo Robbins]
The Historical Jesus (projected 2013) [ed. With Jennifer Pouya]
The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
(HarperSanFrancisco, 2006; paperback 2007).
Editor (with Dale C. Allison, Jr., and John Dominic Crossan): The Historical Jesus in
Context. Princeton Readings in Religion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
2006; Japanese translation, 2009).
Bruce Chilton, Howard Clark Kee, Amy-Jill Levine, Eric M. Meyers, John Rogerson, and
Anthony J. Saldarini, The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, 2d edition (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007): Part Two: Jewish Responses to Greek and Roman
Cultures, 322 B.C.E. to 200 C.E.
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler (eds.), Jewish Annotated New Testament (JANT), Study
Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011; 2d edition under contract [ant. 2017]).
Douglas A. Knight and Amy-Jill Levine, The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish
Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us (San Francisco: HarperOne,
2011).
Warren Carter and Amy-Jill Levine, The New Testament, Methods and Meanings (Nashville,
TN: Abingdon, 2013)
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Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi (San Francisco:
HarperOne, 2014; paperback 2015; Spanish edition: Relatos cortos de Jesús: Las
parabolas enigmáticas de un rabino polémios (Navarre: Verbo Divino, 2016).
Editor, Gospels, Narrative and History, English Translation of vol 4 of La Biblia y Las
Mujeres/The Bible and the Women /La Bibbia e le Donne /Die Bible und die Frauen
(Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2015).
Editor, Ruth, by Alice Laffey and Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Wisdom Commentary Series
(Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2016 in press).
Does G-d Hate Women? (San Francisco: HarperOne, contract)
Jesus for Atheists (San Francisco: HarperOne, contract)
An Essential Guide To Second Temple Judaism (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, contract).
Amy-Jill Levine and Scott Spencer, Mary and Martha (Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, contract)
Ben Witherington III and Amy-Jill Levine, The Gospel of Luke (Cambridge: University
Press, contract)
Amy-Jill Levine and Sandy Sasso, 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, 2 Sons (Louisville:
Westminster/John Knox, anticipated early 2017; second volume under contract)
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler: Fulfillment Citations (working title: contract to be
issued Jan 2016 by HarperOne)

Teaching Company Great Lectures Series
‘Introduction to the Old Testament’ (24 tapes, audio and video), released 2/2001
‘Great Figures of the Old Testament’ (24 tapes, audio and video) released 11/2002
‘Great Figures of the New Testament’ (24 tapes, audio and video), released 11/2002
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United Methodist Publication House tapes
Ruth and the Writings, Disciples IV
What's G-d Up To? Bible Stories Through New Eyes, 2 vols.
Mark 1:1-8, for Jesus in the Gospels
Short-term Disciple Bible Study – Invitation to the New Testament
Serious Answers to Hard Questions: The G-d of the Old Testament

Biblical Archaeology Society Lecture Series/Bible Fest:
“The Battle for Judaism: Archaeology and History vs. the Social Sciences and Cultural
Anthropology,” Bible and Archaeology Fest X (2008).
“The Good Samaritan,” Bible and Archaeology Fest XI (2009).
“Ancient History Vs. Modern Stereotype: Reconsidering Jesus in his Jewish Context,” Bible
and Archaeology Fest XIII (2011).
“The Prodigal Son in his Historical Context,” Bible and Archaeology Fest XVII (2015).

Essays and Articles
"Jesus and Feminism: A Response to Leonard Swidler." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 26.4
(Fall, 1989): 720-21.
L. Swidler, M. Chernick, and A.-J. Levine, "Review Forum on Philip Segal's The Halakah of
Jesus According to Matthew." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 26/3 (1989): 530-35.
"Character Construction and Community Formation in Judith." David J. Lull (ed.), Society of
Biblical Literature 1989 Seminar Papers (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989): 561-69.
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"Who's Catering the Q Affair? Feminist Observations on Q Paraenesis." L. G. Perdue and J.
G. Gammie (eds.), Parenesis: Moral Instruction in Judaism and Early Christianity.
Semeia 50 (1990): 145-61.
"'Jesus the Hillelite' -- A Response to Harvey Falk." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 27.2
(Spring, 1990): 360-64.
"Parshat Vayishlach [Gen. 32:4-36:43]: The Rape of Dinah." National Havurah Committee
weekly column (printed nationally), November 1990; reprint Nov., 1991, 1992.
"Sacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith." James C.
VanderKam (ed.), 'No One Spoke Ill of Her' Essays on Judith, Early Judaism and its
Literature 2, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992, 17-30; repr. A. Brenner (ed.), A Feminist
Companion to Esther, Judith, and Susanna, Sheffield: JSOT, 1995; repr. Alice Bach
(ed.), Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader. New York: Routledge. 1998.
"The Gospel of Matthew." The Women's Bible Commentary. S. Ringe (New Testament ed.),
Philadelphia: Westminster, 1992, 252-62.
"The Book of Ruth." The Women's Bible Commentary. C. Newsom (Old Testament ed.).
Philadelphia: Westminster, 1992, 78-84.
"Diaspora as Metaphor: Bodies and Boundaries in the Book of Tobit." J. A. Overman and R.
S. Maclennan (eds.), Diaspora Jews and Judaism: Essays in Honor of, and in Dialogue
with, A. Thomas Kraabel. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 41. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1992, 105-117.
"Tobit: Teaching Jews How to Live in the Diaspora." Bible Review 8.4 (August, 1992): 42-
51, 64.
"'Hemmed in on Every Side:' Jews and Women in the Book of Susanna." F. F. Segovia and
M. A. Tolbert (eds.), Reading From This Place Vol. 1: Social Location and Biblical
Interpretation in the United States, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995, 175-90; repr. A.
Brenner (ed.), A Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith, and Susanna, Sheffield: JSOT,
1995.
"Maternity and Childcare." Paula Fredriksen, Susan Thistlethwaite (eds.), Guide to the
Perplexing. A Survival Manual for Women in Religious Studies. Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1992, 75-87.
"The Sibylline Oracles." E. S. Fiorenza (ed.), Searching the Scriptures vol. 2. New York:
Crossroad, 1994, 99-108.
"Gentiles"; "Joseph of Arimathea." B. Metzger and M. Coogan (eds.), Oxford Companion to
the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Eighty-one entries. J. Neusner and W. S. Green (eds.) MacMillan Dictionary of Biblical
Judaism. New York: MacMillan, 1996.
"Visions of Kingdoms: From Pompey to the First Jewish Revolt (63 BCE-70 CE)." M.
Coogan et al. (eds.), Oxford History of the Biblical World. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999.
"Yeast of Eden: Jesus, Second Temple Judaism, and Women," Biblical Interpretation 2
(1994): 8-33.
"Hermeneutics of Suspicion." L. M. Russell and J. S. Clarkson (eds.), Dictionary of Feminist
Theologies. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1996, 140-41.
"A Jewess, More and/or Less." M. Peskowitz and L. Levitt (eds.), Judaism Since Gender.
New York and London: Routledge, 1996.
"Settling at Beer-lahai-roi: Sarah and Hagar in Scripture and Tradition" in Yvonne Haddad
and J. L. Esposito (eds.), Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
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"Women in the Q Communit(ies) and Traditions." R. S. Kraemer and M. R. D'Angelo (eds.),
Women and Christian Origins: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999;
reprint as “Les femmes dans la (les) communaté(s) et traditions de Q,’ in Andreas
Dettwiler et Daniel Marguerat (eds.), La souce des paroles de Jésus (Q). Aux origins du
christianisme. Genève: Labor et Fides, 2008.
"Judith." J. Barton and J. Muddiman (eds.), Oxford Bible Commentary. Oxford: The
University Press, 2001; updated for paperback edition of the Apocrypha, 2012.
"Matthean Jesus, Biblical Law, and Hemorrhaging Woman." D. R. Bauer and M. A. Powell
(eds.), Treasures Old and New: Contributions to Matthean Studies. Symposium Series 1.
Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996; reprint in A.-J. Levine (ed.), Feminist Companion to
Matthew.
"Anti-Judaism and the Gospel of Matthew." W. Farmer (ed.), Anti-Judaism and the Gospels.
Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1999.
Twenty-nine entries. C. Meyers et al. (eds.), Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named
and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha, and New Testament. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.
"Apocrypha." D. N. Freedman, ed., Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.
"Matthew" and "Mark." G. O'Day and D. Petersen (eds.), The Access Bible: New Revised
Standard Version Study Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
"Lilies of the Field and Wandering Jews: Biblical Scholarship, Women's Roles, and Social
Location." I. R. Kitzberger (ed.), Transformative Encounters. Jesus and Women Re-
viewed. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999.
“Jesus, Gender, and Sexuality: A Jewish Critique” in B. F. Le Beau et al. (eds.), The
Historical Jesus through Catholic and Jewish Eyes. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press
International, 2000.
"Matthew's Advice to a Divided Readership," in David E. Aune (ed.), The Gospel of Matthew
in Current Study, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2001.
“Women in Tobit,” The Bible Today 37.2 (March/April 1999): 80-85.
“The Greek Book of Esther,” in James L. Mays et al. (eds.), HarperCollins Bible
Commentary, rev. ed., HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
“The Word Becomes Flesh: Jesus, Gender, and Sexuality,” in J. H. Charlesworth and W. P.
Weaver (eds.), Jesus Two Thousand Years Later. Faith and Scholarship Colloquies
(Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2000). Reprint in J.D.G. Dunn and S.
McInight (eds.), The Historical Jesus in Recent Research (Sources for Biblical and
Theological Study 10; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005).
Study materials for Tobit, Daniel, Additions to Daniel, New Oxford Annotated Bible (NOAB-
2e), New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Putting Jesus Where He Belongs: The Man from Nazareth in His Jewish World,”
Perspectives in Religious Studies: Journal of the National Association of Baptist
Professors of Religion 27.1 (spring, 2000).
“Jewish-Christian Relations from the ‘Other Side’: A Response to Webb, Lodahl, and
White,” Quarterly Review (Fall, 2000).
"Jewish Feminist Scholar Runs Sex Program in the Bible Belt: On Testaments and
Testosterone," Religious Studies News, SBL Edition (Oct. 2001).
“Synoptic Gospels and Acts,” in P. Fredriksen and A. Reinhartz (eds.), Jesus, Judaism, and
Christian Anti-Judaism. Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust (Louisville, KY:
Westminster/John Knox, 2002).
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“A Particular Problem: Jewish Perspectives on Christian Bible Study,” in Carol J. Dempsey
and William P. Loewe (eds.), Theology and Sacred Scripture. College Theology Society
Annual Volume 47 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002).
"Is the New Testament Anti-Jewish?" Trinity Seminary Review 23.3 (Summer/Fall, 2002).
“Multiculturalism, Women’s Studies, and Anti-Judaism," Journal of Feminist Studies in
Religion 19.1 (Spring 2003).
"Jesus Who?" Moment Magazine 27.4 (August 2002); reprint in Arthur Kurzweil (ed.), Best
Jewish Writing 2003 (Jossy-Bass).
"The Gentilemen's Agreement," Religion 32.2 (2002); reprt. in Jacob Neusner (ed.), Faith,
Truth, and Freedom (Binghamton, NY: Global Publications. Religion and the Social
Order series).
"Gender, Judaism, and Literature: Unwelcome Guests in Household Configurations,"
Biblical Interpretation 11.2 (2003).
"Women's Humor and Other Creative Juices," in A. Brenner (ed.), Are We Amused? Humour
About Women in the Biblical Worlds (London: T&T Clark, 2003).
“The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible: A Jewish Reading of
the Document,” The Bible Today May/June 2003.
“Apostle,” “Caiaphas,” “Herod/Herodian Dynasty,” “New Testament,” “Sanhedrin,” in E.
Kessler and N. Wenborn (eds.), A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge:
University Press, 2005).
“Acknowledging Jewish and Christian Differences,” Trinity Seminary Review 24.1
(Winter/Spring 2003).
“Theological Education, the Bible, and History: Détente in the Culture Wars,” in D. L. Balch
and C. Osiek (eds.), Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
(Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2003).
“Roland Murphy, The Pontifical Biblical Commission, Jews, and the Bible,” Biblical
Theology Bulletin 33.3 (fall 2003).
“Apocryphal Women: From Fiction to (Arti)fact,” in W. G. Dever and S. Gitin (eds.),
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003).
“Response to ‘Jews and Christians in the First Century: The Struggle Over Identity,” in J.
Neusner and A. J. Avery-Peck (eds.), George Nickelsburg in Perspective: An Ongoing
Dialogue of Learning, vol. 2 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism;
Leiden: Brill, 2003).
“The G-d of All” (Nov. 29-Dec. 5), The Upper Room Disciplines 2004 (Nashville:
UpperRoom Books, 2003).
“Mel Gibson, the Scribes, and the Pharisees,” Religion in the News 6.3 (fall, 2003); rpnt with
updating in S. Brent Plate (ed.), Re-Viewing The Passion: Mel Gibson's Film and Its
Critics (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004).
“Judith”; “Tobit,” in G. W. E. Nickelsburg (ed.), Dictionary of Religious Writings in
Antiquity (in press).
"The Disease of Post-Colonial New Testament Studies and the Hermeneutics of Healing,"
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion roundtable and response (spring, 2004).
“Take the Log Out of Your Eye…” In Miramax: Perspectives on the Passion of the Christ:
Religious Thinkers and Writers Explore the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie
(New York: Miramax, 2004).
‘The Earth Moved: Jesus, Sex, and Eschatology,’ in John S. Kloppenborg and John W.
Marshall (eds.), Apocalypticism, Anti-Semitism and the Historical Jesus: Subtexts in
Context; Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 275
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(London/New York: T&T Clark, 2005).
‘The “Teaching of Contempt” and Ecumenical Publications,’ The Ecumenical Review (World
Council of Churches) 57.4 (2005).
‘Feminist Criticism,’ in David Aune (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament
(Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
‘Go Nowhere Among the Gentiles: A Jewish Perspective on the Great Commission,’ Review
and Expositor 103.1 (Winter, 2006), 139-58.
‘Parshat Lech Lecha: Another View,’ in Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea Weiss (eds.),
The Torah: A Women’s Commentary (New York: Union of Reform Judaism, 2007).
‘Misusing Jesus: How the Church Divorces Jesus from Judaism,’ Christian Century
(December 26, 2006), 20-25; excerpted reprint “C21 Resources: The Church in the 21st
Century Center” (Fall 2008), 13-14.
‘Forward,’ in Teresa J. Hornsby, Sex Texts from the Bible: Selections Annotated and
Explained (Woodstock, VT: Skylight Illuminations, 2007).
“The Gospel of Luke,” in Jacob Neusner and Bruce J. Chilton (eds.), The Quest of the
Historical Pharisees (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007).
‘Jesus the Jew,’ InterfaithFamily Newsletter (December 2007):
http://www.interfaithfamily.com/news_and_opinion/teaching_about_other_religions/Jesu
s_the_Jew.shtml).
‘Anti-Judaism and Matthew,’ Currents in Theology and Mission 34 (December, 2007).
‘An Appreciation: Walter Wink,’ in D. Seiple and Frederick W. Weidmann (eds.), Enigmas
and Powers: Engaging the Work of Walter Wink for Classroom, Church, and World,
Princeton Theological Monograph Series (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2007).
‘Theory, Apologetic, History: Reviewing Jesus’ Jewish Context,’ Australian Biblical Review
55 (2007): 57-78.
‘Anti-Judaism in Christian Biblical Scholarship,’ Gesher 3.4 (October 2007): 107.
‘Forward’ to Caren Goldman and Ted Vorhees, Across the Threshold, Into the Questions
(Harrisburg, PA/New York, NY: Morehouse Publishing, 2008).
‘Matthew's Portrayal of the Synagogue and its Leaders,’ Leuven Colloquium 2009 (Louvain:
Peters, 2011).
‘Between Breaking and Continuity: Matthew’s Gospel,’ in Mercedes Navarro and Marinella
Perroni (eds.), Gospels, Narratives and History, vol. 4 of La Biblia y Las Mujeres/The
Bible and the Women /La Bibbia e le Donne /Die Bible und die Frauen. “El evangelio de
Mateo: entre ruptura y continuidad” (Verbo Divino, 2011); “Das Matthaüsevangelium:
Zwischen Bruch und Kontinuität” (Kohlhammer, 2012); “Il vangelo di Matteo: tra rottura
e continuita” (il pozzo de giacombbe, 2012).
‘Culture of Early Judaism,’ New Interpreters Bible One Volume Commentary (Nashville,
TN: Abingdon Press, 2010).
‘What Do We Call Our Scripture?’ Echoing the Word: The Catholic Religious Education
On-Line Journal 9.1 (2010).
Amy-Jill Levine and Eric Greenberg, ‘Still troubled after all these years’ [report filed from
Oberammergau], Religious News Service, May 14, 2010.
Ted Smith and Amy-Jill Levine, ‘Breaking the Habit of False Witness: A Reading of the
Proposed Presbyterian Report on Israel and Palestine, “Christian Century” (June 29,
2010); response to letters (Sept. 7, 2010).
‘This Widow is Still Bothering Me (Luke 18.5),’ in David Balch and Jason T. Lamoreaux
(eds.), Finding a Woman’s Place. Essays in Honor of Carolyn Osiek R.S.C.J. (Princeton
Theological Monograph Series; Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2010).
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‘Unchristian Responses to the Middle East,’ ABC [Australian Broadcasting Corporation]
Religion and Ethics (21 July 2010)
(http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2010/07/21/2959928.htm)
“Preface/Foreword/Introduction/Preamble/Exordium,” in Stephen D. Moore, The Bible in
Theory: Critical and Postcritical Essays (SBL RBS series; Atlanta: Society of Biblical
Literature, 2010).
‘Correcting Anti-Jewish Stereotypes,’ and ‘The Gospel of Luke,’ in Amy-Jill Levine and
Marc Brettler (eds.), The Jewish Annotated New Testament (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011).
‘The Gospel of Matthew,’ in Sharon Ringe and Carol Newsom (eds.), Women’s Bible
Commentary, 2d edition (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 2013).
‘Jewish Biblical Interpretation,’ in Carolyn Osiek (ed.), Anselm Academic Study Bible
(Winona, MI: Anselm Academic, 2012).
‘Christian Faith and the Study of the Historical Jesus,’ Journal for the Study of the Historical
Jesus 9 (2011): 96-106.
‘Biblical Views: The Many Faces of the Good Samaritan—Most Wrong,’ Biblical
Archaeology Review 38.1 (Jan/Feb 2012).
‘Quo Vadis? Die Kirche und der Skandal des jüdische Jesus,’ Neukirchener Theologische
Zeitschrift 2.11: Kirche und Israel (2011): 108-18.
‘What Jews (and Christians Too) Should Know about the New Testament, Biblical
Archaeology Review (March/April 2012): 59-61, 64.
‘Jesus in Jewish-Christian Dialogue,’ in Bruce Chilton, Anthony Le Donne, and Jacob
Neusner (eds.), Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish
and Christian Scholarship (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012).
‘A Jewish Take on Jesus: Amy-Jill Levine talks the Gospels, A US Catholic Interview,’ U.S.
Catholic 77, No. 10 (2012)
‘Old Habits Die Hard: A Critique of Recent Christian Statements on Israel,’ International
Council of Christians and Jews, Scholarly Contributions 443 (02.05.2012),
http://www.jcrelations.net/Old_Habits_Die_Hard__A_Critique_of_Recent_Christian_Sta
tements_on_Israel.3797.0.html.
Marc Zvi Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine, “Reading the New Testament,’ Sh’ma (May 2012).
‘Jesus in his Jewish Context,’ Bible Odyssey (submitted, Dec. 2012).
“Holy Week and the Hatred of the Jews,” ABC Religion and Ethics (4 April 2012
[http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/04/04/3470618.htm].
‘The Use of the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament,’ in Marc Z. Brettler and Adele Berlin
(eds.), The Jewish Study Bible (New York: Oxford, 2014).
Amy-Jill Levine and Myrick C. Shinall, Jr., ‘Standard and Poor: The Economic Index of the
Parables,’ in Robert Stewart (ed.), The Message of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and
Ben Witherington III in Dialogue (Minneapolis: Fortress, in press).
‘Reflections on Reflections: Jesus, Judaism, and Jewish-Christian Relations,’ Conference
Proceedings: Centers for Christian Jewish Relations (CCJR), Studies in Christian-Jewish
Relations (in press, 2013).
‘"The World was My Oyster But I Used the Wrong Fork” (Oscar Wilde): The Parable of the
Pearl Re-opened,’ in Jason A. Whitlark et al. (eds.), Interpretation and the Claims of the
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